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Subject: [Leica] SL Lens Choices
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:18:28 -0500
References: <992796A9-5FE9-441A-A1E6-037259F7533A@verizon.net> <CABw0KmkvnRV19N+t0qAB=5HEvMaEYb+y-buzjhcWN3pOSw5SxA@mail.gmail.com> <1DC04A86-2F2A-43D2-8FB3-990B58C83832@frozenlight.eu> <CA+yJO1CEWjvgwQ=LKFnU2Y5w+DpLZ07dehmqHP4KPGY=8qtBfA@mail.gmail.com> <3bbb1f63-c0d9-7dca-201d-f45bb41211a5@lighttube.net> <CA+yJO1D4EKicG_PhJugmeO9r1bdjeNCutv+KDvXFBdbDUCdOmA@mail.gmail.com> <CA+yJO1Do1Ep9-3_v_ta5ZrXfDb-xJcWkC9vLgmEiuvig-h0kGg@mail.gmail.com>

That sounds great.  It is a nice range and presents great images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/18/2016 2:48 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I heard back from Leica and they are sending a label for the lens to be
> shipped back and fixed.  They promise to have it back before I leave for
> Russia!!
>
> Tina
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jim.  Yes, I'm still using the "wiggle fix".  I wrote to my repair
>> person at Leica asking if they have come up with a fix but haven't heard
>> back.  I hope she hasn't retired!!
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations to both you and your audience.  I'm glad they are
>>> interested in something besides a smartphone.
>>>
>>> Are you still using the "wiggle fix" when the 24-90 hangs up, or has that
>>> gone away, or been corrected?
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/13/2016 2:27 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree and will save my SL for Leica lenses only!  I can use all of my 
>>>> M
>>>> and R lenses on it, I have the 24-90 and hope to get the fast 50 made 
>>>> for
>>>> the SL.
>>>> At my lecture this morning (which was standing room only), the students
>>>> had
>>>> lots of questions about Leica, which they had never heard of before!
>>>> They
>>>> also had lots of intelligent questions about Syrian refugees and
>>>> documentary photography - I was impressed.  There were well over 100
>>>> people
>>>> in a room that seats 82.  I'm just glad it's over ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
>>>> frozenlight.eu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Which, given that lenses are Leica?s greatest strength, seems absurd.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Nathan
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>>>> Alicante, Spain
>>>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>>>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
>>>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
>>>>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
>>>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
>>>>> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
>>>>> YNWA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13 Sep 2016, at 20:43, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> curious isn't it. We have always talked about using Leica lenses on
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> bodies, we now can use other lenses on a Leica body.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Frank Verizon 2 2016 <
>>>>>>
>>>>> red735i at verizon.net>
>>>>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Novoflex has announced full automation adapters (AF and aperture
>>>>>> control)
>>>>>> for use on the SL body. Adapter for Canon EF lenses and the Nikon G (
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> ones without aperture rings) lenses. The Canon adapter was announced
>>>>>>> several months ago. The Nikon adapter will be announced at Photokina
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> next
>>>>>> week. That will dramatically enlarge the number of lenses that you
>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>> use on the SL. (Until Leica can broaden their offerings).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Leica Users Group.
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Tina Manley
>> www.tinamanley.com
>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-
>> 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
>>
>>
>>
>



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